3 posts tagged with "Getting Started"

If you're using Cursor (and honestly, why wouldn't you be), you've probably heard about MCP. It's how you give Claude access to your databases, APIs, and tools right inside the editor.

Here's how to actually set it up.

My first MCP server took three hours to get working because I made every possible mistake: no logging, broke stdio with print statements, forgot to restart Claude Desktop, and wondered why nothing worked. Your first one should take 30 minutes.

This is what actually works, with the debugging steps I wish I'd known upfront.

I watched Claude hallucinate API endpoints that didn't exist, confidently call made-up functions, and crash our systems with broken JSON. Then we implemented the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and our error rate dropped from 28% to under 3%.

This is what I wish someone had told me when I started.